Machine for making brine.



A. W. DAVISL MAGHINE FOB. MAKING .BEJNE. APPLIOATION FILED me. 15, o.

Patented Apr. 25, 1911.

/Nl/ENTOR WITNESSES:

;T FQE ASA W. DAVIS, OF DERBY, CONNECTICUT.

MACHINE FOB MAKING BRINE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 25, 1911.

Original application filed June 2, 1909, Serial No. 4993704. Divide& andthis application filed August 15,

To cZZ whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, ASA W. DAvIs a citizen of the United States,residing at Derby, County of New Haven, State of Connecticut haveinvented an Improvement in Machines for liaking Brine, of which thefollowing is a specication.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements inmachines for making brine and is a division of the application resultingin Letters Patent 967,?)03, granted to me August 16, 1910, and theinvention has :tor its object to provide a simple and inexpensivemachine adapted for general use wherever a supply of cold, strong brineis required as for cold storage purposes, ice cream freezing and otherfreezing machines.

With these and other objects in view I have devised the novel brinemaking machine which I will now describe, referrng to the accompanyingdrawing forming a part of this specification and using referencecharacters to indicate the several parts.

Figure 1 is a view partly in elevation and partly in section,illustrating the Construction and operation of ny novel machine; andFig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1, looking in the directionof the arrows.

10 denotes a tank in which a barrel 11 is inounted to rotate. One of thejournals of the barrel, indicated specifically by 12, extends throughthe tank and is provided with means for imparting rotation thereto, asfor example a crank, or a sprocket wheel 13 over which a drivingsprocket chain (not shown) passes. The tank is secured at the requiredelevation in any suitable manner, as for example by means of brackets14:. The barrel is provided with an opening 15 for convenience infilling it with a freezing mixture as salt and ice, said opening beingprovided with a cover 16 which is Secured i r I 1 Serial No. 577382.

in place in any suitable manner (not shown). At the ends of the barrelare openings 17 covered on the inner side with screens 18 which retainthe ice and salt therein but permit the intensely cold brine formed bythe melting of the ice and salt to escape freely. The brine passes fromthe tank by means of a discharge pipe 19 to the point of use, as forexample to an ice cream freezing machine, as in my said formerapplication referred to, of which this application is a division.

In use, the barrel is charged with broken ice and salt and is caused torotate. The intensely cold brine produced by the melting of the ice andsalt passes from the barrel into the tank through the openings 17, thescreens 18 preventing the escape of the ice and salt. F rom the tank thebrine passes by means of pipe 19 to the point of use.

Having thus described my invent-ion I claim:

l. A machine for making brine comprising a tank, an outlet pipe leadingtherefrom, and a receptacle rotatably mounted within said tank andprovided with a normally closed charging opening the ends of saidreceptacle having openings for the escape of brine.

2. A machine for making brine comprising a closed tank provided with anoutlet a receptacle rotatably mounted within said tank and provided witha charging opening in its side and discharge openings in its ends, acover normally closing said charging opening, and screens covering saiddischarge opemngs.

In testimony whereot I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ASA XV. DAVIS.

lVitnesses JAMES F. XVELCH, JAooB BBAUN.

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